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Originally posted by bebanovich
So, the official called the foul but not the intentional.
To debate whether he kicked it is kind of moot because I'm going to make my same plea here anyway . . . but I kicked it here.
What I did was say, across the floor since he was relaying his call to his partner, "isn't that kind of the definition of intentional?" In my mind I'm thinking, "let's show the kids we're on top of it."
If I had it to do over I think I would have called for a 30 to see if I could have said, "I don't need the intentional but please just warn so my players can see you warn."
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You had a judgement call made by an official. Whether that judgement call was right or wrong certainly is moot as you said yourself- right before you admitted that you were gonna complain about the call anyway. No matter what, the call was not an excuse for
any player, no matter what color they are, to pull that "you can't do that to me" crap. From your description, it wasn't a hard or a flagrant type of foul. And it's sureasheck wasn't an excuse for a coach to start a b*tchfest over one call in a 25 point game imo. And if you think that macho behavior is restricted solely to black kids, coach, then you haven't been paying much attention either. I've seen kids from all over the rainbow and from greatly varying backgrounds act the same way on that one. Instead of using it as a teaching moment, you were more worried about what was the best way to whine at the officials. Yup, gotta show the kids you got their backs. To hell with sportsmanship while you're doing so. Well, you were using the kids as an excuse, as far as I'm concerned. And also not giving them enough credit for knowing that they had to stay cool in that type of situation. It's kinda hard for the players to stay cool if the coach doesn't know how to do the same thing.
I'm glad you're not looking for sympathy and forgiveness here. I got a feeling that you're not gonna get too much of either on this particular forum.